CIVILIAN PAYROLL SPECIALIST
About the Position: This position is located in Sembach, Germany. Federal employees in Sembach, Germany are currently entitled to receive a 42% (percentage is subject to change) Post Allowance (COLA) in addition to the base salary. This rate is subject to change
Major duties
- Serve as an authority to provide advice and guidance on payroll matters.
- Troubleshoot complex payroll issues to provide prompt resolution.
- Research master employee historical databases to respond to questions concerning back pay issues.
- Perform data entry to update and maintain master employee records.
- Research financial accounts and transactions to determine required corrective adjustments.
- Perform payroll functions to improve the accuracy, content, and timeliness of timekeeping report
- Review reports to ensure correctness of payments and proper accounting of funds.
- Analyze accounting transactions to reconcile and balance accounts.
- Serve as an authority on payroll aspects of timekeeping data for the assigned geographical area.
- Recommend process improvements to prevent the recurrence of audit and inspection findings.
- Provide guidance to budget officers to assist in the processing of commitment and obligation documents.
- Provide support to finance points of contact to assist in disbursement vouchers and foreign currency transactions.
- Perform quality assurance reviews of unliquidated obligations, obligation estimates, and month-end reporting.
- Monitor system reports to identify database errors and processing anomalies.
- Monitor databases and operational logs to ensure continuous regulatory compliance.
- Analyze inspection findings to determine sources of problems.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
- Current Competitive Service Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) Civilian Employee
- Current Department of War (DoW) Civilian Employee
- Excepted Service
- Overseas Family Member Appointment
- Family Member Preference (FMP) for Overseas Employment
- Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
- Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
- Military Spouse Preference (MSP) for Overseas Employment
- Military Spouse Preference (MSP) for Overseas Employment
- Maximum Use of Flexibilies
- Non-Department of War (DoW) Transfer
- People with Disabilities, Schedule A Priority Placement Program, DoW
- Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoW
- MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoW
- Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
GS-09 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience such as researching discrepancies in master employee records, resolving back pay issues, and assisting with time and attendance transactions. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).
GS-09 Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-07).
GS-11 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience such as managing payroll and time keeping systems, processing payroll transactions, resolving critical pay discrepancies, and providing training on time keeping systems. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).
GS-11 Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09).